By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX – Arizona voters will have the chance to decide whether to put even more curbs on the emergency powers of whoever is governor.
Proposition 135 would not restrict the ability of any governor to declare an emergency. But what it would do is spell out that any emergency powers she or he assumes would self-destruct in 30 days unless both the House and Senate give approval.
It also allows lawmakers, even before the 30 days, to vote to end the emergency. That is reinforced by a provision that requires the governor, if the Legislature is not in session, to call them in if there is a petition with the signatures of at least one-third of the members of each chamber.
